House of Wisdom In ancient Baghdad, the scholar known as Caliph Mamoun founded the “Beit al-Hikamah” (House of Wisdom), an academy, library, museum, observatory and translation center in...
Ar-Razi (865-925) wrote more than 100 scientific works, many of which were translated from Arabic into Latin in 1279 and reprinted in Venice in 1542—almost seven hundred years after his birth.
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